Overworked AI ? — when AI takes over our human decision-making

AI determinism & solutionism impacting healthcare futures

“Beware the day when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence, for the fate of mankind may hang in the balance.” — Stephen Hawking

Many years ago, in a previous chapter of my life at Siemens Research’s Princeton Lab, I was deeply engrossed in a passion project: integrating electronic patient records into the healthcare workflow. This research aimed to provide physicians with a powerful tool to enhance patient (soldier) care, particularly field surgeons working for the Department of National Defense (DND), with an innovative tool to elevate patient care. During a time when mobile phones and tablets were emerging technologies, we pondered the question: How could we enhance the timely delivery of medical services to injured soldiers? Moreover, we contemplated how such an endeavor could be amalgamated and cultivated within the frameworks of Siemens’ Syngo (now Siemens Healthineers) and Soarian Clinicals’ software suites.

What was unique about this research was enabling patient input and sense making with connection to their medical patient records, not too far removed from what companies like…